Chapter 27: PanicSoon to be nineteen-years-old Kendall had dropped deep into thought reliving the quarrel he had heard between his father and mother. He and the older Rolfe brothers were in a gully guarded by an oak tree. They'd been waiting at least thirty minutes for Marty, and the five young men had pretty well exhausted the subject of what they would do should they ever acquire visiting rights to a woman. So far Marty was the only one to have found a willing female, but then Marty was one likeable cuss. When he'd bragged to them about going to a whorehouse in Arles, the older ones had approached their respective sires. Martin was outraged.
“I never wasted money on a w***e and I'll be damned if I give my boys money for that. Go find yourselves a gut wife when old enough du are.” His la
